Pocket-scissors



(No Model.)

J. BADGER.

POGKET SUISSORS.. No. 425,560. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN BADGER, CF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

POCKET-SOISSORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,560, dated April15, 1890.

I Application filed August 23, 1889. Serial No. 321,732. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J @NATHAN BADGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of YVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inPocket-Scissors, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to the construction of scissors with a view topermit of reversing the position of the blades for convenience ofcarrying the scissors in the pocket; and it consists of cert-ain noveldevices for retaining the scissors-blades in reversed positions, ashereinafter more particularly described, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in whichm Figure I represents a side view withthe scissors-blades in normal position. Fig. II represents a like viewwith the blades in reversed position. Fig. III represents an edge viewof the reversed blades.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts. Y

The letters A B indicate the two scissorsblades, formed with the usualarms or handles A B', and C indicates the pivot connecting the bladestogether. The blades A B, together with their arms A l, lie in differentplanes, and the contiguous faces of said parts are flat, they beingpreferably made of sheet metal, so that the blades are adapted to bebrought from a normal position, as shown in Fig. I, to a reversedposition, with the ends or bows of the blades at the oppositeextremities of the scissors, as shown in Fig. II, thereby aiording aprotection to the pocket in which the scissors may be carried againstcontact with the poin ts of the blades.

Upon the arm A of the blade A are arranged two stops CZ e, one fixed andthe other movable, for engaging the point of the blade B when the bladesare reversed, and thereby retaining the blades in reversed position.Both of these stops d e are made in shape of a stud or button, and themovable stop e is iitted in a slot f of the proper arm, arranged in suchrelation to the fixed stop d as to per- `mit the movable stop to beadjusted toward `movable stop e, the stud of which it is composed may bedoubled, one part thereof being arranged on each side of the blade-arm Aas shown in Fig. III.

On the point of the blade A and integral therewith is formed a hook G,of a suitable shape to act as a glove-buttoner or shoe-buttoner, and onthe back of the blade B is a row of serrations I, forming integraltherewith an abrading-surfaoe or Iile, which may be conveniently usedfor trimming or polishing the finger-nails:

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. Pocketscissors having reversible blades and arms combined with stops,one fixed and the other movable, which are arranged on the arm of oneblade to engage the point of the other blade, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

2. Pocket-scissors having reversible blades and arms, one having a slotf, combined with stops d e, one fixed to the slotted arm and the otherfitted in the slot thereof to move toward and from said iixed stop,substantially as and Jfor the purpose described.

Signed at lWaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, this 2d day 'of May, A. D. 1889.

JONATHAN BADGER. Witnesses:

SAMUEL P. WILLIAMS, IRING G. PLATT.

